Midwest’s largest private, nonprofit university teams with faculty information system Interfolio to support shared governance activities and improve faculty experience and workflow 

CHICAGO, IL – November 7, 2018 — DePaul University today announced the merging of all faculty affairs processes under a single system designed to support the entire lifecycle of faculty careers, activity, and governance. Working with Interfolio, creators of the first-ever faculty information system, leaders at DePaul will develop a more cohesive experience for faculty and a more academically-focused approach to supporting faculty affairs—including hiring, promotion and tenure, and accreditation reporting.

“In addition to immediate process improvements, we will join a community of faculty affairs leaders determining best practices and industry standards around the highly specific processes and workflows of academe,” said Alyssa Kupka, Chief of Staff and Senior Associate Vice President Academic Affairs. “The opportunity to provide a cohesive and responsive faculty solution set will yield both short- and long-term dividends.”

By making the transition from existing systems to Interfolio, DePaul will elevate all disparate faculty processes to a unified platform designed to accommodate the specificities of faculty activities and actions. DePaul sought technology purposefully designed for academic users because the processes addressed—especially faculty hiring, with its nuances around confidential letters and shared governance—demanded a specialized solution.

Administrators at DePaul were also seeking more and better ways to receive validated information about the scholarly activity of faculty in advance of accreditation milestones. Must-haves included an intuitive activity reporting solution to gather, validate, and drill down on accurate data necessary for accreditation requirements, as well as flexible and customizable workflows to seamlessly integrate the technology within colleges with varying departmental structures.

“We’re excited to be working with a leading university like DePaul in an expansive relationship that will contribute formally to the research and development of new Interfolio products,”  said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “Leaders at DePaul University share our vision for the evolution of the Faculty Information System and recognize the importance of developing a roadmap for faculty-centric technology in concert with Interfolio’s diverse portfolio of institutional partners.”

In mid-November, DePaul will convene peer institutions for a one-day workshop on using Interfolio to manage faculty information, transform faculty centered processes and decision management, and drive best practices around faculty affairs in the arena of diversity and inclusion in hiring, collaboration in the research process, and centering faculty time on strategic activities such as research, teaching, service and other professional matters.

About DePaul University

DePaul is the largest Catholic university in the United States and the largest private, nonprofit university in the Midwest, with nearly 22,500 students and a wide range of academic and professional programs. It is nationally recognized for incorporating service learning throughout its curriculum and preparing its graduates for a global economy. DePaul was founded in Chicago in 1898 by the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians), a Roman Catholic religious community dedicated to following the ideals of St. Vincent de Paul, the 17th century priest for whom the university is named. DePaul’s tradition of providing a quality education to students from a broad range of backgrounds, with particular attention to first-generation students, has resulted in one of the nation’s most diverse student bodies. More information is available at www.depaul.edu.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions.

For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com.

Leading provider of faculty-focused technology Interfolio offers new levels of integration with researcher-identification system to enhance accuracy and completeness of scholarly accomplishments.

WASHINGTON, DC — October 10, 2018 — Interfolio, creator of the first faculty information system, announced an enhanced partnership with ORCID, provider of unique identifiers for scholars. With this partnership, researchers and their institutions will be able to synch scholarly data within a single, faculty-focused platform, streamlining the scholar recognition process.

“We are excited to be working with Interfolio,” said Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID. “Faculty will benefit from easier information exchange, saving them time, and consequently institutions will have more accurate data to support their reporting needs.”

“Partnering with ORCID further adds to our ability to empower faculty to develop their academic story continuously across their career,” said Ben Wang, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Interfolio. “ORCID integration with Interfolio’s FIS makes it nearly seamless for faculty to leverage, enhance, and add to their scholarly story from a central platform.”

Through this expanded partnership, faculty at institutions using Interfolio are able to seamlessly update their data from their ORCID record, which consolidates individuals’ research, scholarship, and innovation contributions from a variety of sources. Faculty will gain a powerful tool for seeing and sharing their accomplishments, and institutions will have a more complete and accurate view of the research and activities of their scholars.

Interfolio’s Faculty Information System is the first-ever engagement platform to harness academic activity, decisions, and data for institutional insight. The suite of solutions is specially designed to help academics tell their professional and scholarly stories, as well as to overcome the arduous shared governance and data collection processes. Interfolio provides technology to support faculty hiring, activity reporting, and shared governance decisions, like faculty review, promotion, and tenure.

To learn more about Interfolio’s suite of academic-centered solutions, contact our team today.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About ORCID

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research and innovation, from imagining to building and managing, are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, and borders, and time. ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research and innovation activities. We provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. We provide this service to help people find information and to simplify reporting and analysis.

The University of Louisville taps Interfolio, creator of higher education’s faculty information system, to provide a campus-wide digital solution for faculty review, promotion, tenure, and activity reporting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 18, 2018 – The University of Louisville, a prominent public research institution, has partnered with Interfolio to better support shared governance practices and improve managing data throughout the faculty lifecycle. Using Interfolio’s digital platform, the university aims to enable faculty to devote more time to teaching and research by streamlining faculty data management, promotion, and tenure processes.

“We had multiple systems to track faculty information that created a lot of redundancy,” said Tracy Eells, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. “We wanted to alleviate the pain points for our faculty through time savings, ease of use, and consolidation of information we request from them. In addition, we wanted to make it easier on review committees for all key decision processes—like promotion and tenure, annual reviews, post-tenure reviews, contract renewals, and sabbaticals.”

Designed for the unique needs of faculty, Interfolio’s platform provides a full suite of faculty-focused technology to support every stage in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring through tenure. Decision makers found Interfolio’s expertise and commitment aligned well with the University’s vision for how faculty and administrators should engage with and benefit from campus technology.

Additional considerations related to benefits for administrators, as noted by Paula Hensel, Director of Faculty Affairs, “We had no way to track faculty data centrally to support our workflows. We wanted to move to an electronic system, away from the paper-based personnel action processes, to achieve increased efficiencies.”

“The University of Louisville is a model of a forward-thinking metropolitan research university committed to having an impact on the local and global communities,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “The opportunity to partner with a major institution focused on advancing its mission by advancing its faculty is truly extraordinary.”

About University of Louisville

Established in 1798, UofL is Kentucky’s premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university. With over 22,000 students and three campuses, UofL offers more than 200 areas of study from its 12 colleges and schools. The institution is a long-time leader in medical breakthroughs.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossiers for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 200 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

Trusted education services provider Edalex will collaborate with Interfolio to provide Australian educational institutions with the first-ever engagement platform for academic activity, decisions, and data.

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA — September 11, 2018— Interfolio, the leading faculty information system company, today announced a new partnership with Edalex, a leading educational services company, to better support academics in Australia and New Zealand. Through this partnership, institutions across Australia and New Zealand can now access Interfolio’s innovative Faculty Information System, a first-of-its-kind platform streamlining shared governance and academic data collection processes.

“As a company, our mission is to use technology to support and highlight the work of academics in order to provide insights and action that further the institutional mission,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO at Interfolio. “We’re excited to partner with Edalex, an organisation that shares our passion for education innovation, to extend our platform’s reach to Australia and New Zealand, and support academics in the region.”

Through Interfolio and Edalex’s partnership, educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand will be able to utilise Interfolio’s globally-implemented suite of solutions for the hiring, review, and promotion processes of academic staff, as well as activity reporting to provide critical analytical insight into the scholarly engine powering the institution. Additionally, institutions will have access to local account management, implementation services, and unified customer support.

Interfolio’s Faculty Information System is the first-ever engagement platform to harness academic activity, decisions, and data for institutional insight. The suite of solutions is driven by a need to help academics tell their professional and scholarly story, as well as to overcome the arduous management of shared governance and data collection processes on campus.

“Edalex’s mission is to ‘help put innovation into education’ and we believe Interfolio is uniquely positioned to deliver that to institutions across the ANZ region,” said Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex. “Their products recognise the critical role that academics play in the institutional ecosystem and provide with them intuitive tools to make their experience more rewarding and productive.”

To learn more about Interfolio’s suite of academic-centred solutions, contact our team today.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About Edalex

Edalex delivers a range of services for the education sector. With deep expertise in the educational technology sector, and strong engagement with local educational institutions, Edalex delivers proven results for both clients and partners. Edalex is the official Asia Pacific services and support provider for the open-source repository openEQUELLA, and is the exclusive ANZ reseller and support partner for both the analytics-driven student communication platform, Full Measure Education, and Interfolio’s Faculty Information System.  Find out more at edalex.com/interfolio.

Top research university partners with faculty information system Interfolio

PHILADELPHIA, PA—As of August 2nd, 2018, University of Pennsylvania and Interfolio entered into a 3-year contract for the use of three Interfolio products across the University of Pennsylvania campus. These products are Faculty Activity Reporting; Faculty Search; and Review, Promotion and Tenure. University of Pennsylvania also engaged Interfolio for the implementation process as well as subsequent training and support.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions.

For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2018 — Pepperdine University has partnered with Interfolio, provider of faculty-focused technology for higher education, to establish a digital solution to manage faculty data and workflows related to hiring, activity reporting, and review, tenure, and promotion processes.

Pepperdine, a prominent independent Christian university located in Malibu, California, adopted Interfolio’s Faculty Information System to enhance the collection and use of activity data, and to provide more standardization, transparency and equity for key lifecycle processes. Leaders at the University found Interfolio’s experience and success with campus-wide faculty implementations made them uniquely qualified to provide Pepperdine’s faculty with a superior user experience.

“One of the most important aspects to adopting new software programs for the University is ease of use. We ask: Will faculty and staff be able to implement it in a reasonable amount of time? How intuitive is it? Is vendor support readily available?” said Lisa Bortman, Associate Provost for the University’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness. “It’s been wonderful to receive the feedback from colleagues that confirms the system has been easy to adopt, is inclusive of all the features we need, and that Interfolio has provided comprehensive customer support.”

Additionally, Interfolio’s ability to support accreditation reporting was a key consideration for Pepperdine. “Specialized accreditations have become an increased priority for our undergraduate school and graduate schools due to the demand for specialized learning in higher education,” Bortman noted. “Interfolio’s accreditation compliance support was a critical factor in garnering University-wide buy-in.”

“Pepperdine University is an example of academic leadership using technology decisions that benefit faculty to achieve institutional success,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “We are excited about the opportunity to partner with a leading faith-based institution achieving its vision by supporting its faculty and key stakeholders.”

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 200 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About Pepperdine University

Founded in 1937, Pepperdine University is an independent, Christian university located 30 miles west of downtown Los Angeles in scenic Malibu, California. The University enrolls approximately 7,600 students across its flagship liberal arts school, Seaver College; the School of Law; the Graziadio Business School; the Graduate School of Education and Psychology; and the School of Public Policy. Pepperdine is committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. Follow Pepperdine on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Please join us on Wednesday, July 25 for a free webinar and Q&A with UF’s Melissa Curry and Kathy McKee on their faculty hiring strategy.)

WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 24, 2018—The University of Florida, a leading public research institution, has selected Interfolio, a pioneer in faculty-focused higher education technology, to support the university’s “Faculty 500” initiative to hire 500 new faculty members—200 of those by this fall.  Stakeholders involved in the decision chose Interfolio due to its ability to streamline and support the University of Florida’s hiring goals while meeting the distinct needs of academic institutions.

“We were trying to provide better support for our faculty hiring processes and determined that the Interfolio Faculty Search solution was uniquely qualified,” said Melissa Curry, Director of Recruitment and Staffing at the University of Florida. “It became apparent that Interfolio was right for us when we realized that hiring faculty is different from other hiring processes. Interfolio Faculty Search was built for hiring faculty and for providing efficiencies and ease of use for faculty participating in the search process. Faculty are not opposed to electronic systems, they’re opposed to electronic systems that make their lives more difficult. Talking to them and understanding their needs and how we could make their lives easier in the hiring process were key for us selecting the Interfolio Faculty Search solution.”

The Faculty Search module is part of the Interfolio Faculty Information System, the first technology platform in higher education dedicated to facilitating faculty engagement throughout the entire faculty lifecycle. In adopting Interfolio, the University of Florida joins several other Florida public universities in using the Interfolio Faculty Information System to support aspects of faculty information management, including hiring, workflow, and faculty activity reporting.

“The University of Florida’s ‘Faculty 500’ initiative shows tremendous vision, leadership and commitment to the mission-critical aspects of a university that will pay huge dividends for students and society,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “We are very excited to be selected to support this initiative. The partnership shows that the University of Florida believes strategic change in higher education comes by investing in faculty.”

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 200 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

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RELATED: University of Michigan Selects Interfolio’s Faculty Information System to Support Faculty Hiring, Affirmative Action, and EEO

July 17, 2018

The University of Michigan School of Education and School for Environment and Sustainability have selected Interfolio, provider of faculty-focused higher education technology, to manage faculty activity and advancement data online. (See also: University of Michigan Selects Interfolio’s Faculty Information System to Support Faculty Hiring, Affirmative Action, and EEO) 

The two academic units within the University chose Interfolio to support annual faculty activity reporting cycles more efficiently and effectively by moving away from cumbersome paper-based processes to an online environment.  

“We had huge paper trails every time we tried to do a faculty review. Between Word documents and printed documents, it’s just a total mess that the administrative assistants had to sort through and put together,” said Moe Daraiseh, Director of Information Technology in the School for Environment and Sustainability. “It took a lot of time and effort, and a lot of frustration, to get it done. We wanted to streamline that process and make it as easy as possible for faculty, staff, and administrators.”

“We faced the classic problems of using a 20th century process for activity reporting, which involved faculty filling out very long Word-document forms, and compiling those into reports for reviewers,” stated Joe Gorde, Director of Information Technology in the School of Education. “There was a significant potential for errors, and it was time-consuming having to send reminders to faculty.  This was an easy decision because Interfolio had the relevant product to eliminate our pain points.”

Both schools had considered in-house digital systems, but concluded the cost to build and maintain an internal system was not feasible given the features and resources provided with Interfolio’s solutions. Also, there were several other schools within the University already using Interfolio modules. This positive relationship provided a compelling vetting process for the current adoption.

“The University of Michigan’s School of Environment and Sustainability and the School of Education provide great examples of academic vision and leadership for technology use,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “Collaborating with institutions committed to enhancing the impact of the faculty and the quality of life for all stakeholders is key to gaining a holistic view of the faculty lifecycle.”

For more information on the Interfolio Faculty Information System, please visit www.interfolio.com.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 200 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26—University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has partnered with Interfolio, provider of faculty-first higher education technology, to establish a digital solution for faculty review, tenure, promotion, and activity reporting.

UCSD, a leading public research institution in the University of California system, chose Interfolio as a solution to its challenges around transparency and equity in shared governance processes for faculty review. Stakeholders involved in the decision found Interfolio’s focus on the faculty-user in processes like review, promotion, and tenure aligned with UCSD’s vision for how faculty should engage with and benefit from campus technology.

“Interfolio’s Promotion & Tenure and FACULTY180 modules provide a robust faculty-focused platform that will ease the academic personnel process with its forward-looking technology for university settings. This system will increase transparency, provide our academics with invaluable tools for activity sharing and analytics, and overall, it will ease the burden for faculty being reviewed, for reviewers making these important decisions, and for staff preparing academic review materials,” said Cindy Palmer, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel. “We are excited to embark on this partnership with a company that actively collaborates and gathers feedback with its partner institutions and faculty user groups to tackle the highly complex issues in higher education.”

A second consideration when partnering with Interfolio was the flexibility available in its workflow technology; homegrown and competitor systems did not accommodate the varied, nuanced, and complex processes around appointment, review, and tenure across departments and colleges at the university.

“UCSD is a model for forward-thinking, agile technology adoption,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “From our perspective, the opportunity to partner with an institution so rich in complexity, focused on effectiveness, and oriented to faculty value is exceptional.”

About Interfolio

Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on the ecosystem of faculty work, decisions, and data in higher education. With modules for faculty recruitment and hiring; review, promotion, and tenure; and faculty activity reporting and accreditation, Interfolio is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to provide a faculty-first engine for intelligent decision making in higher education.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2017—Leading private research university Boston College has chosen to expand its partnership with Interfolio, pioneer in faculty-first higher education technology, by adding the Promotion & Tenure faculty review platform to its existing contracts for the company’s recruitment and reporting offerings.

“We had already spent five years modernizing and streamlining our faculty recruitment with Interfolio’s help, and we had carefully chosen the best faculty activity reporting platform for our needs,” says Jessica Pesce, Ph.D., Associate Director, Faculty and Academic Affairs. “We saw a golden opportunity both to link all these faculty affairs processes together and to bring the workload of tenure and promotion into the digital age.”

With this move, Boston College now uses all four of Interfolio’s faculty technology products to address the full cycle of recruitment, academic career development, tenure and formal review, and activity reporting. (Promotion & Tenure includes Interfolio’s Dossier product for all faculty members at the institution.)

“As a client since 2012, Boston College has been an instrumental partner in the development of our faculty-centric products and has helped us to meet the complex needs of higher education,” says Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen. “We’re excited that we’re their solution for faculty data and accreditation, as well as the platform for every moment in the Boston College faculty lifecycle, from hiring to professional service, promotion, and tenure.”

In addition to the collaborative relationship from the beginnings of the company’s Faculty Search platform, Boston College had separately adopted the FACULTY180 faculty activity reporting product in 2016 (prior to Interfolio’s acquisition of peer company DATA180). “Throughout our five years working with Interfolio,” says Pesce, “they have consistently maintained a genuine dialogue with us about our experience, how we use the product, and what could make their services more valuable to us. They’ve let us help shape the kind of technology that we actually need, and we’re very thankful for that.”